Applachian Trail Map

[donscc]

is there any available to download to TomTom One?

 

[Boyd]

TomTom only offers regular US street maps and not topo maps like Garmin has. However, if you don't mind doing some hacking on your own, you can put your own Google Earth or USGS Topo map images into the /raster folder and make custom maps this way. But this is a strictly "roll your own" proposition which you need to figure out for yourself, there aren't any tools (that I know of) to help. See the following for more info:https://www.tomtomforums.com/showthread.php?t=4890&page=2

However... have you tried hiking around with your TomTom? From what I've seen, it really isn't acceptable for that use. It doesn't accurately update your position unless you're moving at driving speed.

You might want to look at Garmin handhelds for this kind of thing. In addition to the US Topo 2008 maps they have 24k topo maps of the Appalacian trail which even support routing.

 

[trippclark]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I guess it is dead since it is over a month old, so rather I am resurrecting it! I have a Tom Tom One that I just purchased 3 weeks ago and had the same inquiry about the Appalachian Trail. My purpose, however, is different from what the reply above assumed -- I don't plan on walking with a Tom Tom for navigation. I would, however, like to have available all of the points where the A.T. crosses a road or highway. Since I am section hiking the A.T., each trip I make I have to locate where the AT crosses a road, and actually must find two such points -- a start and an end -- for that particular trip. Sometime these crossings are rather obscure and difficult to locate.

Presently, my best solution will be to locate each point using MapTech software that I own and then load the coordinates for each of the two points manually.

 

[a720user]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I guess it is dead since it is over a month old, so rather I am resurrecting it! I have a Tom Tom One that I just purchased 3 weeks ago and had the same inquiry about the Appalachian Trail. My purpose, however, is different from what the reply above assumed -- I don't plan on walking with a Tom Tom for navigation. I would, however, like to have available all of the points where the A.T. crosses a road or highway. Since I am section hiking the A.T., each trip I make I have to locate where the AT crosses a road, and actually must find two such points -- a start and an end -- for that particular trip. Sometime these crossings are rather obscure and difficult to locate.

Presently, my best solution will be to locate each point using MapTech software that I own and then load the coordinates for each of the two points manually.

not a hijack in my opinion - I hadn't seen the thread

I had just searched around for the same thing, hoping to find a poi file of all the trail crossings. It seems like it might be a ton of data to compile, I put it down as a "someday" todo

Here's some places to start:
AT conservancy gis page
http://tinyurl.com/2fxvsv

this looks like a good find, I haven't had time to figure out how to work with the data
http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx

another good AT & gps info page
http://www.travelbygps.com/z_links/appalachian_trail.php

good luck, please let us know if you succeed. I thru-hiked in '94 and love to stop and just look at the trail from time to time

 

[Yooshaw]

not a hijack in my opinion - I hadn't seen the thread

I had just searched around for the same thing, hoping to find a poi file of all the trail crossings. It seems like it might be a ton of data to compile, I put it down as a "someday" todo

Here's some places to start:
AT conservancy gis page
http://tinyurl.com/2fxvsv

this looks like a good find, I haven't had time to figure out how to work with the data
http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx

another good AT & gps info page
http://www.travelbygps.com/z_links/appalachian_trail.php

good luck, please let us know if you succeed. I thru-hiked in '94 and love to stop and just look at the trail from time to time

I haven't looked at these links, but if it has the data where they cross the AT, you could use Google Earth and Tyre to make your own POIs

 

[flyer1024]

this looks like a good find, I haven't had time to figure out how to work with the data
http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx

I just downloaded the file on this page in .gpx format, opened it POIEDIT, saved it as both a tomtom .ov2 and a google earth .kml file.

no problem adding it to your tomtom, but not sure how much use it would be hiking with a tomtom.

If you want to look at the file, use the .kml file format in poiedit and open it in google earth. it's interesting and you could probably see a lot of the road crossings there, mark them and save the file as .kml. then convert to ov2 for the tomtom.

 

[a720user]

no problem adding it to your tomtom, but not sure how much use it would be hiking with a tomtom.

thanks flyer!

it's not for hiking, but locating where the trail crosses a road.

 

[trippclark]

thanks flyer!

it's not for hiking, but locating where the trail crosses a road.

Hey, I am glad that you understand the need and usefulness of this. I am brand new to TomTom and have no clue yet about POIEDIT and the other things referenced above. Hopefully I can figure it out.

Worst case, I can get the points from my MapTech Appalachian Trail software and then load the points manually for the section that I plan to do in April. This would not be practical for the whole 2175 miles of trail though. We'd be talking about HUNDREDS of crossings.

 

[flyer1024]

Not sure if this is of any help to you, but poiedit is software that can convert between many gps formats. Tyre is another.

I'm not that familiar with the trail so not sure how much of it you can see, if any, in google earth, but the file mentioned earlier shows shelters on the trail and highlights the route pretty good when converted and loaded into google earth.

If you can see spots you need where it intersects a road, you can mark those spots in google earth and save that file as a .kml file. simply converting that into tomtom .ov2 format will allow it to be used in the tomtom. so while you would have to mark each spot in google earth, the co-ordinates are easily entered into the gps simply by doing the file conversion.

you might also be able to export from your trail software and convert into tomtom format???

 

[trippclark]

There is a Google map of the trail at

http://www.fivemillionsteps.com/trailmap.php

It is the one in BLUE. Also listed are the PCT and the CDT (Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail).

I expect that there is no automated way to extract road crossings with this map, but it is a neat resource nonetheless.

 

[a720user]

trippclark - that's cool, but not nearly accurate enough as you already know

flyer1024 - what exactly did you download from http://rohland.homedns.... ? I see links to the different sections that end with links to a google map for each individual parking/access point. Is there a file on that site with all of that parking & trailhead access in one file?

does anyone have the system requirements to work with the ARC Interchange file or the ArcView shape file here? I don't know what any of that stuff is:
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/sit...k.4226/Appalachian_Trail_GIS_and_GPS_Data.htm
that is supposedly a centerline track that would probably be most accurate.

What I, and I think trippclark, would like, is a file of the poi's in the center of the road at the point where the AT crosses. Distinct poi's for parking areas would be xtra nice. If this hasn't been done before, I'm afraid it's a doosey. Looks like you'd have to load up the AT centerline into a mapping program, then place a waypoint at each road crossing by hand.

 

[flyer1024]

Sorry, my mistake/ the file I downloaded is at

http://www.travelbygps.com/z_links/appalachian_trail.php

the "free gps map" in gpx format.

 

[a720user]

well, this is interesting & useless

it's a poi file of all of the shelters.
Shelter name - state - county

converted it from a very good text file on the Conservancy page

the good people at http://appalachiantrail.rohland.org wrote me back, their info isn't easily distributable at this time, but they are working towards the same end.

 

[a720user]

forgot the icon

 

[schmuttis]

reply from http://appalachiantrail.rohland.org aka http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_m

This is the full text that we sent to a720user in response to their request that is at the bottom of this post:

Thanks for the kind words they are greatly appreciated.

All of the parking GPS locations that we have are located in a text column in the database (primarily in PA, NJ, MD and a little in VA). So sifting through this would be the same as sifting through all of the entries that you see displayed on our website. We've been trying to get more hikers to send us GPS info but there are very few that do. The majority of our GPS data has been what we collect as we hike. Recently, I asked a few AT/GPS sites to add our site as a link in hopes to compile more of this info.

We just recently added a column in the database that holds links to Google maps for the parking/trail access. We have been doing most of this manually using our AT maps and trying to find the corresponding area on Google maps (so open to error). As I said before, some we have recorded from our hikes. This is quite a time intensive task and we have just started to scratch the surface. Needless to say this is only done in the little free time we have - all a volunteer effort on our part. If a group of you wanted to divide up this task, we would be more than willing to provide a repository for this information in our database. I would just like you to know that our primary purpose is to help hikers get to the AT - not plot a graph of the AT. We are interested in the parking/access area for the AT.

BTW, the link that was posted, http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx, could possibly change from time to time. If you use this link, http://appalachiantrail.rohland.org, you will always find us. The other is just an intermediate step where we can easily change our IP address when needed.

I'd appreciate if you would keep us in the loop since this information would really help other hikers.
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Email sent to us from a720user:

First, many thanks for the work you are doing compiling the AT access info on your website, it's a treasure.

We have started a discussion in hopes of finding a POI file for auto navigation to find where the trail crosses a road, or parking areas, or anything but the shelter info.

https://www.tomtomforums.com/showthread.php?t=6189

Do you have a file that contains all of the information that you have gathered? We are looking for, or will be attempting to create, a text file with each access point's long & lat, along with a short description.

Thanks again for your site​

To sum all of this up, we are willing to modify our database/webpage to facilitate collecting this information as well as sharing it in a usable way if we would have a commitment from others to help enter the data. If you are an AT hiker and would be willing to help in this effort please contact us via our webpage.

Many thanks and happy hiking!